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故事讲述流浪牛仔约翰．伯恩斯返回故里，拜访他昔日曾经爱慕的好姑娘邦迪，得知她已同其最好的朋友保罗结婚。但保罗因为非法穿越美国/墨西哥边境而遭逮捕被判两年监禁，总能轻松越狱的伯恩斯打算亲自去监狱帮好友越狱。他设法进了监狱后发现老朋友并不想逃跑，无奈自己脱逃，他准备好马匹和粮食后，在他熟悉的山路中躲避一干现代警力的追捕。在一望无际的荒山野岭中，展开一场老式牛仔与现代警力对峙的猫鼠游戏。

故事发生在一间名为咏花寨的妓寨之中，其中坐镇着美艳风流的花艳红（利智 饰）、芙蓉出水的陆千千（关之琳 饰）、清纯可人的玉叶和热情奔放的金枝。艳光四射的女子们让咏花寨成为了所有男人们垂涎三尺的桃源乡，每一个华灯初上的夜晚，都是这里最为热闹之时。政府颁布了禁娼令，并派遣了禁娼专员程立邦（郑少秋 饰）前往咏花寨进行暗访，和程立邦一起的，还有他的未婚妻莉莉（刘嘉玲 饰）。哪知道，即便刚正不阿如程立邦，却也无法抵挡花艳红等人的诱惑，发现自己的未婚夫心猿意马，焦急的莉莉只得转而向警察厅长朱爷（秦沛 饰）求助。

Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake 1965 16mm film 90minsThis was the first attempt to cinematize the works of Irish author James Joyce. Based more on a stage adaptation by Mary Manning than the Joyce novel itself, the film concentrates on Dublin pubkeeper Finnegan (Martin J. Kelly), who while in the throes of inebriation has a vision of his own death. As the bemused Finnegan lies in his coffin, his friends gather for his wake. The "corpse" tries to cut through the keening and platitudes by probing the innermost thoughts of those closest to him. The surprising aspect of this film is that so much of its difficult text works on screen--a tribute to the loving care of scripter/director/ editor Mary Ellen Bute, who, while preparing this film spent her waking hours picking the brains and burrowing through the resource materials of the James Joyce Society.Although director Mary Ellen Bute’s highly regarded Finnegans Wake (aka Passages from Finnegans Wake) is a unique film that is likely to baffle anyone unfamiliar with James Joyce, it cannot be dismissed merely as a literary exercise. The director was right in claiming that her film was “not a translation of the book but a reaction to it”. It is actually based on a stage play by Mary Manning, who was also responsible for the screenplay. Joyce’s elliptical rhetoric and intricate punning, which might be considered a formidable barrier to the filming of this most opaque of his works, proved to be an attraction to Bute, whose enthusiasm for the ‘visual’ and ‘kinetic’ quality of his language led her to the surprising but well-judged move of running subtitles from the original text to support the dialogue.Visual music pioneer Mary Ellen Bute's final film was also her first feature film. James Joyce's classic story of Irish tavern-keeper who dreams of attending his own wake is brought to the screen with a sparkling energy which highlights its maker's career-long exploration of kinetic abstract animation. Perhaps best described as a 'film poem,' Passages from Finnegans Wake was the first attempt to 'cinematize' the works of James Joyce, featuring the author's highly original language spoken by characters and presented as text on screen.

除夕之夜，位于东京的高级酒店Avanti进入最紧张忙碌的时刻，倒计时晚会在即。副总管新堂平吉（役所广司 饰）、新堂的助手登纪子（户田惠子 饰）、清洁女工竹本花（松隆子 饰）、酒店小工只野宪二（香取慎吾 饰）等等，员工们无论职位高低，全都马不停蹄，布置准备。与此同时，丑闻缠身的国会议员藤田（佐藤浩市 饰）、夫妇同来却意外遭遇有瓜葛妓女的动物学家堀田（角野卓造 饰）等客人和压力过大企图自杀的演歌名宿德川（西田敏行 饰）、丢失了鸭子拍档而无法演出的腹语师阪田等状况不断地表演人员纷纷进入，加上层出不穷的小事故，令Avanti酒店显得格外嘈杂。新年到来之前，酒店最恶的两小时，倒计时开始……